I will not be at the meeting tomorrow.
These are the thoughts I would have brought:
Our main challenge in the next six months is outfitting the new classrooms. Ideally, new classrooms can be made usable shortly after they become available to us.
We have plenty of chairs to go around though we may have to shuffle them around some for larger than usual attendences. We will need more tables as we currently have barely enough. The goal is not to have to move tables between rooms often as that is unnecessary work which has a tendency to dent the walls. New tables should be foldable for storage.
The new lobby classroom in #102 will need one or two monitors and some tables. Until we can actually see the room, we cannot say whether one larger monitor is better or two smaller ones. There is a window on the south wall of that room, so lightproofing may be an issue. If there is not enough money in our budget, we may have to temporarily move one of the big monitors over from the Interactive Classroom.
We should move the spare 60" monitor from the Interactive Classroom to either the current Galley or the Creative Arts room. We should buy a new monitor of similar size for the other.
Tables stationed in the current Galley should be water-resistant. Our current plastic tables will be good there.
In the likely event that there is no money available to divide the current Creative Arts studio into two separate rooms, the Current 3D Fab room will become our computer classroom and laboratory. That room is rather small, but it will be usable. We should move the 50" monitor from the crash cart in the Conference Room to replace the one (also 50") 3D Fab currently has. Our 18" wide tables are somewhat easy to tip over, so we should look into 24" wide ones for a more semi-permanent installation.
The idea for the crash cart was that it is available to take to a committee area to use for teaching a class. It has been a very underutilized resource we maybe should not bother keeping.
Revenue sources.
The committee should encourage teachers to direct some honorarium money to the committee for outfitting the new classrooms. We all benefit from that investment.
I still believe we should pursue selling naming rights to the classrooms though the task is now more difficult with Talk going private. How can we convince potential benefactors that the classrooms are a significant part of our culture? Individual threads can be made visible outside of the gravitational well, but no telling how long that wormhole will be allowed to remain open.